PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Spectrum Disorder, Sleepwalking, Intermittent Explosive Disorder
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Diagnosis is essential for professionals to be able to communicate accurately with another. Disorder must classified correctly before its cause or treatment is found. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm-5): five constituencies of dsm-5: Research: extent of does classification advance research -do people in clinical trial who meet prescribed criteria have clinical problems. Clinical practice: does system advance clinical practice in terms of guiding treatment. Pharmaceutical industry: does pharmaceutical industry influence how disorders are defined. Legal system: do biases/inadequacies in how disorder is determined get reflected in legal decisions. General public: how classification/ description of disorder relate to general beliefs about mental disorder. International statistical classification of diseases, injuries and causes of death (icd): Comprehensive listing of all disease by who, including classification of abnormal behaviour. Later who published new classification system that more widely accepted (dsm and dsm ii) Dsm ii did not specify symptoms for given disorders. Dsm-iii: published by american psychiatric association, include multiaxial classification.
